Carol @Knittingtopia …I still see a lot of baby clothes with loose ribbons…I once saw a baby choking on a ribbon from their bonnet…it was very scary.
I am getting old now ( lol) and can see me ending up just painting and crocheting for myself…I have spent a lifetime designing and selling my knitting and crochet but the rules and regs are taking all the pleasure out of it all…which is very sad, even though i have always complied with it all…
What do they mean by a postcard?..should it be a specific size?..
Life is becoming too complicated…xx
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Sue, @MinpinTowers I save the ball bands and use them as well…I wonder what happens to someone who maybe gets yarn from a charity shop or jumble sale…they would have no idea of the yarn content, which is what I asked the trading standards office and that was when he said that it was ok to put “Yarn content unknown”… basically warning any customer to wash at their own risk…lol…
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I mean I may put all the info on a postcard to include in the package rather than a swing tag as I do now as I can fit more info on.
@MinpinTowers I know what yarn I use for which item and use the washing instructions from the wool band in my listings and on my swing tags.
I do save my bands because I like to work out how much I’ve knitted/crocheted at the end of the year (something I see someone do and I just thought it would be fun) but at the end of the year I throw them away. I can’t see why I would need them (I’d have thousands!)
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Make a collage with them Carol @Knittingtopia …ha ha x
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I could make crazy wallpaper 
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well I am sure you have seen my new carpet…I couldn’t afford a shop one and each square contains left over yarns from garments that I have made in the last 10 years…lol…( sorry for hijacking the thread…)
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Yes I have seen this. Fab idea and I bet it’s cosy.
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This is really helpful thank you - Can I ask how I remove my shipping to EU/ROW from listings - I’ve looked on the dashboard but can only see how to change the price of shipping not to remove it as an option…?
Hi Debbie
I will not sell to any country other than within the UK. either. It looks a mine field and now i am to old to in the tooth too be bothering with it all.
The clothing tag regulations changes recently within the UK. From what I have read you don’t need it for your bears.
I had my labels professionally made with the help and advice from our local trading standards officer as I belonged to the ‘Made in Cornwall’ scheme run by them. They did only a few fairs each year but I had to stop when I became disabled. At the time my husband was working full time so he couldn’t help me.
I had made up separate labels with a list of main yarns and I just add the yarn % contact with a cloth pen in order to comply with the yarn content; which must be attached by a cloth label from what I was told!
Yet another mine field!
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I never thought of a cloth pen.
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So,if I have my work stocked in a gallery and the gallery sells my work in the EU or NI, are they taking on the responsibility for the new regs or is it still my responsibility?
Do I just make sure I give information about materials used when I pass my work to thegallery? Then thegallery/shop would need to be compliant if selling to these destinations?
Hope this makes sense
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I don’t think the new shipping options are live yet?
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Hi Gail, thank you for this and for looking at it for the bears, I will have a proper look when I get chance. I do need to review the paperwork I put in place a few years ago again so all of this has prompted me to do it. I have currently added it to the ‘to do’ ‘must sort’ and ‘when i get time’ piles 
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It sounds as though you have your labelling sorted, if I need to do similar I might have to give you a yell if that’s ok, just to make sure I am doing it right and I might even enjoy the process, sad as it sounds I use to enjoy the health and safety side of my job (I worked in accounts and h & s).
I still sell international but not to EU or NI, I couldn’t get my head around it before let alone now. Currently US, AUS etc is straightforward, let’s hope it stays that way.
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I suggest you raise this with the galleries. You may have to sell the work to them, then they sell on to the consumer taking on the new EU and N.I regulations themselves.
You will however still have to give the gallery your materials content in order for them to comply, if applicable.
The world’s gone completely mad in my opion. I can see craft and artist’s becoming a thing of the past because people just will not want the hassle.
The days of hand knitting a baby garments to sell at a craft fair or on line like Folksy will go because of the costs involved in order to comply with UK labelling and materials content regulations. The information must be permanently attached to the garment via labelling alone and not by any other means. Apparently new regulations are being currently looked at according to the Government’s own website for ‘garment labelling’. I have looked at it this evening but not willing to copy and paste due to copyright infringement.
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According to many websites I’ve seen (including GB labels which I think was tried to link to earlier) state it doesn’t have to be sewn in.
UK Government Guidance states that “swing tickets or gummed labels are adequate” and that “it is sufficient to indicate the fibre composition on the packaging.” (see footnote 2)
Footnote 2
“…it is not necessary, however, to provide a sewn-in label or to print directly on to the textile product. Swing tickets or gummed labels are adequate; and if the products are offered for sale in packaging (i.e. pre- packed) it is sufficient to indicate the fibre composition on the packaging only.
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I think if you set the price to 0.00 it automatically removes it from the postage options? At least that’s what I do.
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If you set it to 0.00 that’s free postage to that area. You have to clear the field so it is blank.
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If the gallery is in the UK, you don’t need to worry about the EU regs - they only apply to products offered for sale IN an EU territory, whether bricks and mortar, online, distance sold etc. 
Obviously, you already have to comply with the UK regs.
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I have work in bricks and mortar galleries but these galleries also have websites where the work is sold online to a world market. One of these has already contacted me to say that they are temporarily stopping online sales overseas and I presume that’s because of the regs. But as I have no control (or knowledge) as to who they sell my work to, I am assuming (which is probably foolish!) that they will either stop selling to EU and NI or set up their own representative in the EU. I think it doubtful that any of the galleries I work with sell enough overseas online to justify an EU rep, as the majority of their sales are through the gallery itself and to UK customers or visitors from abroad going into the gallery and buying. @whitecatceramics @thecrimsonrabbit But I will contact them and ask to make sure.
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That is incorrect @PaintedHorseArt and @CuriousMagpie
you have to leave the postage box EMPTY ( as Helen @HelenCliffordArt states) or you are saying that postage to that place is FREE !!
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